, 1887-12-15
LOCAL JOTTiNCS.

an electric fire alarm.
The most popular beverage among
cOunoisseurs is Old Hermitage whisky,
market. 1t can only be found at j.
N Sqmer & Co.'S.
The chief engineer thinks that
horses will have to be added to the
department next summer. The town
is spreading so that il is too much
labor to drag the heavy apparatus to
the further fire plugs.
A hose cart with several hundred
feet Of hose will probably be located in
Brownies addition in short time. If
the town keeps on growing, carts will
have to be put iD other quarters OF
the city reached by the water mains.
TheT Her case comes up for trial
this morning, A great deal of interest
centers in the result, ns it is one of the
mostimp'riant criminal cases ON the
docket. Murray will assist the district
attorney III conducting the prosecu-
ton.
The banjo which was not ra filed for
Saturday night ut the Catholic fair,
because the book could not b. found,
will be railled for IL. McNabs Thurs.
day evening promptly at 8 O'clock.
Everybody interested therein should
be there sharp 8.
The firm of J. N. Squier & Co. deal
in nothing but the very best liquors
and are always surprising the public
with novelties in their line. The
latest addition to their stock is an in
voice Of Old Hamilton whisky that
if cr"wding out all other wIskes.
Mrs. Commerford has moved her
millinery parlors up stairs over her
for former place of business and will
dispose of her stock at and below
cost in order to reduce the amount on
hand. Ladies will find it Will pay
them for the trouble of going up
stairs.
good start has already been made
ON the Division street bridge. The
frame work on both sides has been
completed out to deep water. The
structure already makes quite an i'm
posing appearance. When completed
| IL will he of almost inestlmable value
to property i'll that vicinity.
Mail pouches are now made up at
this postoilice for all points ulong the
Spokane and Palouse road. Hereto
fore mails were carried haphaznrd,
rarely getting to any point few miles
south Of here until days after leaving
this point. Now there is hope OF the
mails moving expedltiously.
There will be some very fine rhe-
t.1 in NJ, al
of the public school building on Fri
day afternoon, the Odd inst. The pa
irons OF the schools are specially in
vitcd, and it is but just to the scholars
and terchers that they should be en-
couraged with II large attendance.
| Carpenters are busy remodeling the
| old New Market theatre, which is to
he opened next Saturday evening
| The work is under the direction Of
| Mr.. Needham, who has had IL great
deal of experience in this line and it
promises to excel any theatre of the
Kind Gu the coast, outside Of San Fran
| cisco.
Mnrried-At the residence of Mel
son Clark, in Smkane Falls, w. r.,
December IA, 1887, by Rev. Nelson
Clark, Mr.. S. C.. Caldwell, of this city,
and Miss Mary e. Pngh, Of Shedd,
Linn county, Oregon. Mr.. Caldwell
is favorably known here and has
| erected a comfortable residence in our
city and will make this their future
| home.
A variety theatre may not add to
the moral tore of the city, but it indi-
Gates that the place has grown to that
size where II regular place Of amuse-
ment is in demand. Other cities sup
port theatres of this description and
Spokane Falls will not remain in the
rear OF the procession. One thing is
in its favor and that is it is better than
the majority of this class of shows.
The painting OF the cards for the
new advertising desk to be put into
The Grand hotel is being done by Mr..
l.. F. Lee, one OF the most artistic
sign writers in the northwest. The
centre will be Of fine French plate
glass, the woodwork of solid walnut,
and the whole is to be urmOunted by
fine deer head. Taken altogether,
when completed it will he by far the fin
piece Of the kind ever st p n this
city.
The managers Of the cracker factory
desire that the report of the sad acci'
dent of Tuesday be corrected, wherein
it was stated that the elevator caught
in some manner, and the boy who
was killed had laid down in order to
look over the side to ascertain what
was the matter. This version OF the
accident was given the reporter at
the factory, or else the idea would
never have entered his head, not being
in the Least conversant with the mech
anism of an elevator.
All honor to the men who responded
with such alacuty to the call last
night when it was supposed that II
child had wandered off and was lost in